A Wise Word:

Witchcraft is all about living to the heights and depths of life as a way of worship. --LY DE ANGELES

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Peanut Butter Cookies: A Bit of Kitchen Witchery

My mother would have a heart attack if she even suspected that I added magick to her peanut butter cookie recipe, but I did! I hate to admit it, but I do find a bit of satisfaction in knowing that. For all the mama traits the woman doesn't have, she gets an A+ in cookie making. These are the ultimate in rich, creamy, melt in your mouth goodness and they are only composed of three yes, you read right only three ingredients.

One of my favorite witches likes to say, "Live Your Magick!" Since I am a full time mama, my magick is in mothering. Yesterday just seemed like a good day to add a bit of extra memory making to equation, so Miss Busy and I mixed up a batch of these cookies. Every time we make them, I tell her the three ingredients so that she will have this special recipe memorized by the time she is ready to try the magick on her own. Since these cookies are one of my fond childhood memories, I include a bit on my own mothers magic as well: flattening them with a potato masher to get the little knobs on the top.

Heat the oven to 350.Cream together your three ingredients.Shape into balls and roll in a bit of extra sugar to coat.This is the step where you add your magick. While I am shaping the ball I concentrate on the good, warm memories I want my children to have of their childhoods. I then channel that energy and a good dose of love through my hands and right into the cookie. To enhance the intent of the magick, we sit together and chat while we enjoy them.

Set on cookie sheet and flatten with a potato masher. This creates round cookies. Here we talk about the cookies being the same shape as the moon. Miss Busy isn't old enough to have very in depth conversations with, but she is already learning about the tides and moon phases.

Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

The hardest part about this recipe is waiting for them to cool. Since they are really more like confections than traditional cookies, they cool very slowly and will scald your mouth if you are impatient enough to bite into one early. Yeah, ask me how I know. These are absolutely amazing with a glass of milk and I've been know to justify them as breakfast food.

Finding a Witch

As a little girl, I told my parents that I preferred being barefoot because I could feel the Earth breathing through the soles of my feet. Of course, with their typical conservative piousness, I was quickly shushed and informed that the Earth did not breathe. Even though I never mentioned it again, I didn't for a moment believe them.

For many years, I communed silently with the elements and in times of need used childish spell work to pull healing from the Earth and soothing from the Wind. It was my secret superstition and I hid it well beneath my fundamentalist Christian costume.

After being freed from the church for several years, I begin to pursue the secret knowledge I have carried with me all this time. That is how I got here: joyfully practicing the old faith in this little apartment. I'm still in the broom closet most days and I have a lot to learn, but the journey has begun.